Title printed in red and black

Added engraved half title signed: D. Marot inv., T. Gole sculp.; many of the engraved plates are signed: F.W. Brandshagen

Engraved title vignette; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces

"Inscriptio Persepolitana"--Plate facing p. 332

"Tabula hydrographica Sinus Persici"--Plate facing p. 764

Signatures: pi² [a]² b⁴ c² A-6C⁴

Errata: p. [30]-[32], last count

Includes index

I. Relationes de aulae persicae statu hodierno -- II. Relationes & observationes historico-physicas de rebus variis -- III. Observationes physico-medicas curiosas -- IV. Relationes botanico-historicas de Palma dactylifera, in Perside crescente -- V. Plantarum japonicarum, quas regnum peragranti solum natale conspiciendas objecit, nomina & characteres sinicos; intermixtis, pro specimine, quarundam plenis descriptionibus, unà cum iconibus

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, no

Pritzel (2nd ed.)

Hunt botanical cat.

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SCNHRB has two copies

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088016456063) bound in red library buckram, title in gilt on spine, marbled edges

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088016456105) trimmed, affecting imprint

SCNHRB c. 2 has ink bibliographical note on front paste-down

SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on front paste-down: Myron Bement and Katharine Dennis Smith

SCNHRB c. 2 bound in blue library buckram, title in gilt within black leather spine label; measures 21 cm

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